User blog:Allofyou/Reasons why I cannot reach top 20 in Colosseum leaderboards

Hi! Since I am a PvP fanatic, I will continually make blogs about my experience in Colosseum battles.

My goal is to make it to leaderboards before 2018.

I recently recovered my loss from internet disconnection, now my rank is 4673 (yay), aiming for top 20. However, I seem to have a hard time getting to that point and I'm telling you why.

Reasons why I can't reach top 20 in Colosseum leaderboards:

1. Underestimating the opponent

- The opponent uses full RU team while I incorporate UU-OU-Ubers (with one PU) Pokemon into my team. I recklessly sent out my Excadrill against the Machamp thinking that I can KO it easily. However, I can't and got beaten back. Also due to the opponent's luck, my final card (Pokemon) was frozen, so I lost shamefully.

2. Internet disconnection (Worst one)

- I rarely got disconnected from the internet during Colosseum battles, but when I did, I lost about 100-400 rank per each disconnection while only winning 1-15 per battle.

3. Bad decisions or simply playing poorly

- I thrown out my Zapdos to counter some Pokemon and then got worn down, then got beaten by Mega Beedrill for the whole team because Zapdos in the only Pokemon in my team that can actually counter it.

4. Mega Charizard X and Chansey (not anymore)

- My team only has a soft counter to Mega Charizard (Mega Gyarados). I need to play extremely carefully when I encounter them. When I failed to do so, it usually occurs in my loss.

- For Chansey, it is not a problem anymore because I prepared for her exclusively now. However, due to my bad decisions sometimes, I used up my physical attackers and got beaten by Chansey easily.

5. Poor teambuilding (new teams)

- This is not a problem anymore since I now use my alt account to test new teams. Even though I can click unrated, some opponents requested rated battles to me and I accidentally clicked accept and I lost.

- I forget to include counters for setup sweepers at times, therefore losing to Dragon Dance users such as Mega Charizard X and Mega Salamence.